Coachella
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Filters, festivals and fake followers
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Music festival season is a time where social media is flooded with photos of Valencia filtered girls in distressed shorts, flower crowns and chokers. Guys who look like they stepped out of a Vans ad can be seen smiling smugly, snapbacks firmly in place, peace signs thrown in front of them to match their picture’s…
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The trouble with toxic relationships on TV
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On modern TV, romances are not frequently depicted in a healthy manner. Audiences are fed inorganic, unhealthy relationships that, heterosexual people especially, lap up like they’re meant to without a second thought. The most recent example that comes to mind is Mon-El and Kara, also known collectively by internet fans as “Karamel”, on Supergirl. It…
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